Infusing Western Life with Tibetan Buddhist Compassion
The Buddhist path is about much more than ‘Buddhism’ . . . It develops intuitive ethics, mindfulness, calm, intelligence, patience, confidence, integrity, wisdom, compassion. It promotes widespread inquiry through open-minded curiosity, study, contemplation, discussion, knowledge. It helps transform ‘out of control’ egos into significantly virtuous tools. It helps us overcome narrow-minded, reactive, often fear-based “me … Read more
Summertime . . . a time for road trips, forest hikes, picnics, ocean sunrises and sunsets. Let’s animate . . . leave for a summer excursion, inside, to where our greatest potential(s) lie. Where the skies are iridescently blue while transformative raindrops, full of infinite Buddhas, fall and penetrate. The joy of being in this … Read more
“It’s all in your head” is a popular comment, meant to dismiss an experience (or statement) of what “is” as something that doesn’t really exist . . . an out-of-touch moment . . . a fiction or individual misapprehension. Well, guess what . . . IT IS all in your head (if it is the … Read more
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Perhaps for some of us, at times the Dharma mind is really just another aspect of self-centeredness . . . a high-regarding aspect of “me” . . . a new self-identity that I treasure and don’t want to lose because I like how it makes me feel. It makes me feel good to tell others … Read more
QUALITY (noun) 1. the standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something. 2. a distinctive attribute or characteristic possessed by someone or something. If you can reliably, and without drama, deliver precisely what you have promised, this is Quality. Quality happens when a … Read more
More and more the presence of Watson, IBM’s famous artificial intelligence (AI) machine that won TV’s ‘Jeopardy’ game show a few years ago, is becoming ubiquitous. We see its speed and brilliance promoted in various business applications and educational projects as well as, most promisingly, in complex medical disease diagnosis. Certainly, Watson (logo above) brings enormous advantages, … Read more
Kathy and I saw the new Al Gore movie the other night. It’s a good film, perhaps a bit too much “Al” at times but it focuses on several environmental truths. One of them is that sea levels are rising . . . every day . . . and have been for awhile. About this, … Read more
Your Eclipse goggles. Once important, now obsolete. It makes no difference how many you’ve got, where you bought them, how much you paid or how stylish they were. Toss them away . . . they are now useless. *** Your delusions of self and all that come with them. No longer needed. They have been … Read more
While a fundamental – and undeniably practical – notion of Buddhist thought, sometimes we forget . . . Blossoms bloom due to a series of conditions that bring about its blooming. Leaves dry and fall from due to conditions that cause them to do so. Blossoms do not bloom unconditioned; a leaf does not … Read more